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FINALIST LOCUS.
Prima parte din trilogia SOUTHERN REACH.
Aria X: un misterios teritoriu abandonat, aflat în carantină. Până acum, unsprezece echipe de exploratori au dispărut în misiune. A douăsprezecea este formată din patru femei: un psiholog, un antropolog, un topograf și un biolog – cea prin ochii căreia ni se înfățișează Aria X, cu toate ororile și splendorile ei, sfidând granițele raționalului.
După ce și-a lăsat în urmă numele și identitatea, biologul se confruntă cu forme de viață care depășesc orice imaginație, dar și cu povestea paralelă a soțului ei, fost explorator al Ariei X. Secretele pe care fiecare le-a adus cu sine sunt la fel de periculoase ca lumea pe care o explorează...
„Protagoniști decupați parcă din cărțile lui Jules Verne sau ale lui H.G. Wells explorează o insulă misterioasă, dintr-o lume de coșmar kafkian.“
Kim Stanley Robinson
„Un thriller psihologic despre o expediție periculoasă și despre stranietatea pe care o ascundem adânc în noi. Cu influențe din Kubrik și Lovecraft, romanul își ține cititorii într-un suspans insuportabil până la ultima pagină, și chiar și după.“
Lauren Beukes
„Dacă ți-a plăcut romanul Picnic la marginea drumului, de Arkadi & Boris Strugațki, trebuie să încerci cartea asta.“
Marian Coman, redactor-șef Armada
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This book is crazy and you never know what it might throw at you, but maybe you don’t need to know everything… or anything.
I didn't know whether or not I would like the book but I did very much. It was surprisingly short but I felt that this was just right. This ensured the words on the page were worth it.The descriptive writing was excellent. Area X is a strange place which reminded me of the area in [b:Roadside Picnic|331256|Roadside Picnic|Arkady Strugatsky|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1173812259s/331256.jpg|1243896] (and the film Stalker). I felt as though I was there and I could visualise the creatures, the coastline and the tower.However, I didn't really warm to any of the characters. I didn't really feel for the main character the biologist, though I felt more for her husband as I learnt about him.I found it a page turner and the climax was perfect. I will be reading the next in the series. I toyed with giving it 5 stars but I save 5 stars for 'wow' books. This was almost there...
I finished this book yesterday. I enjoyed it, but I didn't think I loved it. I immediately wanted to download the next one, but I actually exercised some restraint for once. (Unusual for me, judging by the pile of books next to my bed). But then last night, I had wierd, Area X inspired dreams all night long. Eerie, creepy, but not really bad dreams. The writer got into my head more than I realized. The first half of the book felt disjointed, but I honestly only read a paragraph or so at a time, so it took me a while to really get into the story. (Thanks kids for interrupting with your incessant demands for meals and things!) The suspense was delicious because it built so steadily and quietly. I found the narrator compelling, even as I became aware of how compromised she might be. I didn't want it to end, yet I felt the payoff was satisfying without being too neat. I am excited to read the next book, but I feel that this one stands on its own. In the end, I liked the disjointed feeling, the fact that little was fully explained, that the narrator was deliberately telling and not-telling, leaving many aspects obscure and mytsterious. It kept me off-balance and interested, it kept me thinking and turning the pages, and now it is keeping my imagination going, even after I closed the book.